“She's a nice girl," Tennessee said as a way of saying goodbye to them, as a way of saying thank you and I'm sorry, as a way of saying, I wish I had never let you go and I wish we had never met.”

“But it never worked that way, and the sex just made her lonelier. I understood that, as it had made me lonelier too. I could never remember being lonely, certainly not in this way, until I had seen the edge of the ways you could be with another person, which brought up all the myriad ways that person could never be there for you.”

“I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.”

“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.”

“Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

“It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.”

“The part when they are together for a while, the two of them, before things go wrong. The way things ended always obliterated the genuine happiness that had come before and that shouldn't be the case.”